• Future of learning: obsolescence of knowledge, return to real teaching

  “Leading entrepreneurs and thought leaders provide a look at the future of education in a short documentary from Ericsson. It discusses how technology is changing the way students learn as well as what it means to learn and teach in a connected era.”

  tags: Ericsson futureofed Future of Learning #MustRead brainfood video

• The Less-Is-Best Approach to Innovation – Matthew E. May – Harvard Business Review

  tags: innovation #MustRead

• STOP STEALING DREAMS: Seth Godin at TEDxYouth@BFS – YouTube

  tags: seth godin video TEDx #MustRead brainfood StopStealingDreams

• TEDxNYED – April 28, 2012 – Tony Wagner – YouTube

  tags: education innovation TonyWagner #MustRead brainfood video TEDx

• IFTF_FutureWorkSkillsSummary_01.gif 1,633×1,033 pixels

  tags: infographic futureofwork #MustRead brainfood

• IFTF: Anya Kamenetz Tells What’s in Store for Education

  tags: Kamenetz DIY futureofed #MustRead

  • “Is the stuff that we’re learning and the ways that we’re learning it really relevant to the world we live in?”

• TEDxAustin – Carrie Contey – 02/20/10 – YouTube

  Carrie Contey is a nationally recognized prenatal and perinatal psychologist who reminds us of the power of pause. She explains that there’s a reason that so many ideas seem to materialize when were out of concentrated thinking mode; in the shower, on a walk, upon waking. Carrie urges us to do less to be more – and taking a moment to watch her talk is a great way to start. http://www.earlyparenting.com/

  tags: TEDx Rest development earlychildhood educate #MustRead Brain-based video

• How to Let Your Purpose Find You – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review

  Purpose, like any great love, redeems us. Perhaps not from the inferno, but from the void. Of a life, starved by insatiable self-regard, that comes to feel desperately empty — because, in truth, it has been. There is no singular, simple, final meaning to life. And it is the scars of purpose that, finally, don’t just merely give meaning to life — but endow us with a greater privilege — giving life to meaning.

  tags: purpose #MustRead brainfood

• The Rise of Educator-Entrepreneurs: Bringing Classroom Experience to Ed-Tech | MindShift

  tags: edtech edupreneurs #MustRead innovation

• Eight Things in Education That Will Change in the Digital Age | MindShift

  tags: Seth Godin futureofed future of schools #MustRead brainfood

• C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: The Education Debate 2012 — Andy Hargreaves

  tags: education edreform #MustRead

• Why Learning Should Be Messy | MindShift

  Can creativity be taught? Absolutely. The real question is: “How do we teach it?” In school, instead of crossing subjects and classes, we teach them in a very rigid manner. Very rarely do you witness math and science teachers or English and history teachers collaborating with each other. Sticking in your silo, shell, and expertise is comfortable. Well, it’s time to crack that shell. It’s time to abolish silos and subjects. Joichi Ito, director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, told me that rather than interdisciplinary education, which merges two or more disciplines, we need anti-disciplinary education, a term coined by Sandy Pentland, head of the lab’s Human Dynamics group.

  tags: learning education pbl creativity ProjectBasedLearning messy #MustRead brainfood

• Unsolicited Evaluation Is the Enemy of Creativity | Psychology Today

  In physically demanding tasks, like lifting heavy weights, and in tedious tasks, like counting beans, we do better when we are being evaluated than when we are not.  But in tasks that require creativity, or new insights, or new learning, we do better when we are not being evaluated—when we are just playing, not stressed, not afraid of failure.  Evaluation generally promotes effort—because we want to impress the evaluator—but effort is insufficient for creativity.  You can’t be more creative just by trying harder.  To be creative, you have to back off of yourself in a way that permits the full engagement of certain unconscious mental processes—processes that generate unusual associations and new ideas. Those unconscious processes work best when you are playing, not when you are striving for praise or some other reward.

  tags: creativity psychology evaluation #MustRead brainfood

• The Golden Age | PRINCIPALLY SPEAKING

  tags: infographic statistics schooling #MustRead

• Mental Models | Farnam Street

  tags: mental models farnamstreet #MustRead

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• How does Brazil Develop Its Soccer Players?

  tags: brazil soccer players PBL real-world #MustRead

• Mistakes are guideposts for getting better

  tags: mistakes assessment #MustRead

• Igniting a Learning Revolution: Student-Run Higher Education for Sustainable Development | Your Olive Branch News – yobo

  Perhaps the most radical characteristic of CEMUS is the degree to which students are given agency and treated as intellectual equals. Students are hired and made responsible for developing both the content and pedagogy of their education. In close collaboration with teachers, researchers, and practitioners, students plan and coordinate the wide range of courses offered by CEMUS.

  Diverse academic and professional lecturers, as well as varied student backgrounds, help to both break down and, in course, rebuild bridges between disciplinary boundaries—boundaries so often cemented in educational institutions. A combination of innovative and recognized pedagogical approaches, such as problem-based and explorative learning, forms an environment that is truly interdisciplinary, collaborative, and inclusive.

  tags: learning revolution higher education sustainability #MustRead school model brainfood

• The World We Explore- Sir Ken Robinson Zeitgeist Americas 2012 – YouTube

  The World We Explore– Sir Ken Robinson, Educator. Curiosity encourages us to push boundaries into uncharted territories. Where can our hunger for discovery take us – both outside and inside ourselves?

  tags: robinson zeitgeist video #MustRead creativity brainfood

• Three Things Every Parent and Politician Needs to Know about Merit Pay in Education – The Tempered Radical

  tags: merit pay collaboration PLC #MustRead professional learning

• The Great Collision – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review

  NB: If you want some simple life or biz advice, here’s a tiny attempt. Tomorrow’s great institutions will be built — as they always have been — not merely by answering today’s preferences with the lowest common denominator, but by seeking radical, transformative paths to resolve the contradictions between preference and expectation, past and future, value and values. Want to build one? Take a hard look at the Great Collision — and blaze a trail that doesn’t end in social, personal, economic wreckage. Don’t just make a difference.

  tags: future #MustRead

• The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth « Creelman Research Library

  At the heart  of the battle was his approach to building. Most building projects are fairly mechanical and capitalistic. An architect designs something in great detail on paper and then they pass it to a construction firm that attempts to complete the design as accurately (and as cheaply) as possible.  All the thinking is done in the design stage, the builder is just a ‘pair of hands’ to execute it. Alexander’s approach is to work from drawings to mock-ups to the building itself. His approach allows for constant tweaking of the design to create something wonderful that works as a whole. The thinking never stops since it is impossible to know the right answers until you are deep in construction and what is working and not working has become clear.  He calls this adaptive approach System A, and the mechanistic one System B.

  tags: design #MustRead brainfood leadership leadership20

• The Missing Link in School Reform | Stanford Social Innovation Review

  tags: collaboration edreform PLC #MustRead SocialCapital HumanCapital brainfood

• 4 Key Elements of Effective Principal-ship in successful 1:1 programs, From Project Red research « 21k12

  tags: 1:1 technology online education jonathanemartin #MustRead assessment

• 50 Education Leaders Worth Following On Twitter | Edudemic

  tags: education leaders #MustRead twitter PLN

• Want to Ruin Teaching? Give Ratings – NYTimes.com

  tags: teaching professional development evaluation #MustRead

• The Art of Learning

  tags: learning #MustRead farnamstreet

• Seth’s Blog: Redefining productivity

  tags: Innovation seth #MustRead

• ‘Talent Is in the Building’: Our Quest to Uncover Innovation in Schools Nationwide | Education on GOOD

  tags: innovation nationwide odyssey #MustRead

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• John D. Haeger: Catching Up to Technology Transformation

  tags: technology transformation #MustRead

• edu180atl: dylan deal 10.11.12 | edu180atl

  tags: edu180atl #MustRead context integrated studies love

• edu180atl: katherine correll 10.9.12 | edu180atl

  tags: edu180atl #MustRead relationship

• TeachThought9 Characteristics Of 21st Century Learning | TeachThought

  tags: 21st century learning characteristics 21C 21stcenturylearning #MustRead

• TeachThoughtSeeing Students As Co-Collaborators

  tags: students co-collaborators collaboration #MustRead

• Why Do Kids Believe in God but Not Harry Potter? | Harvard Graduate School of Education

  tags: learning questioning Harris brainfood #MustRead

• How to achieve true educational transformation | eSchool News

  tags: transformation edreform politics #MustRead

• Recasting Teachers and Students as Designers | MindShift

  tags: design #MustRead brainfood school model StudioH

  • we discover that the magic of design in a learning setting is empowerment.
  • Empowerment emanates from the dynamic pairing of possibility and agency, ownership and impact, and the right tools and critical thought to make it all happen.
  • process of seeing possibility and acting upon it is a central concept in critical and engaged pedagogy
  • the intersection of design and learning is more natural than novel.
  • illuminates the innately empowering and democratic power that is true learning
  • In a time when critical and constructive educational theories are threatened, our attention to design thinking in the classroom is crucial.

• Should We Connect School Life to Real Life? | MindShift

  tags: innovation #MustRead brainfood school model richardson Mindshift

• Courage, Commitment Pay Off With New Engine For Innovation at St. Luke’s, New Canaan « The Learning Pond

  tags: innovation school model #MustRead

• How 21st Century Thinking Is Different | TeachThought

  Adherence, compliance, and impersonal, external evaluation. This worked when there were no other options, but learning options today don’t just abound, they dwarf formal learning institutions in every way but clout with the power-holders—parents, teachers, deans, and curriculum designers.

  tags: 21C 21stcenturylearning habits of mind #MustRead brainfood

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